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The set for Zelig, a variety show on Italian TV, is being lit once again by an Clay Paky-dominated rig supplied by Renato Neri's Xenon. The fixture lineup includes Alpha Spot HPE 1200s, Alpha Spot 575s, Alpha Wash 575s, Stage Color 1200s, Stage Profile Pluses, CP Color 400s and Alpha Beam 300 motorized ACL lights.

Although its name might suggest otherwise, not all eyes at the Vanity nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas are focused on the club's mirrored surfaces. Instead, the are drawn to a custom-made LED chandelier/sculpture made up of 20,000 LED points driven by a Martin Maxedia Compact media server.

Miami's Winter Music Conference, aimed at DJs, recording artists, producers, promoters, and anyone else plugged into the world of electronic music, got its start in the mid-1980s. In 1998, a companion event, the Ultra Music Festival, was born, staged on the sands of South Beach at the close of the conference.

Complete Production Systems, Inc. (CPS) recently provided a lighting rig consisting entirely of Chroma-Q Color Punch LED fixtures for the Odawa Casino Resort’s O zone nightclub in Petoskey, Mich.

Billy Currington is hitting the road with a new lighting design courtesy of Chris Lisle Lighting Design. It's one of the first country acts to take out a completely "green" lighting rig, and also features the GRN Batten from Bandit Lites.

After selecting Coemar lighting fixtures for alternative/funk party band 311's 2008 and 2009 tours, lighting designer/director Joe Paradise once again chose a complement of Coemar Infinity XLs and ACLs for the band's 2010 311 Day Concert in Las Vegas.

LD Bridget Williams specified ETC's Unison Paradigm architectural lighting control system for Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Parish in Santa Clarita, Calif. "They wanted to fully modernize their lighting system while highlighting their unique interior design," said Williams.

Layali Febrayer, a music and poetry festival in Kuwait City, is a gathering point for artists, singers, writers and intellectuals from all over the Arab world. The 2010 event was televised by Alwatan Television Network in Kuwait, airing Thursday and Friday nights for three weeks and streamed live on the Internet.

The opening and closing soccer tournament ceremonies for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, turned 11th November Stadium in Luanda, Angola into a visual representation of significant cultural and political events in Angola's recent history and its vision for the future. Robe moving lights played a key role.

Pro Light + Sound, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe's biggest and most prominent production industry-related trade show, has been gaining in prominence even while the economy has been in a funk. At this year's show there was a good buzz around the halls, suggesting that people were thinking about real business and not just kicking tires.

Chaos Visual Productions is on the road with Alicia Keys' 2010 "Freedom" tour, which is promoting her 2009 album, The Element of Freedom, with tour stops in North America and Europe this spring.

In comedy, timing is everything, and for Swiss entertainer Marco Rima's Die Patienten to succeed, the crew needed to accurately synchronize video projection on three independently-revolving walls. Technology from coolux helped keep the insanity onstage, where it belonged.